The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) decided to pursue the demand of The Pampa by the Atuel River and was transferred to the National State so that in a period of no more than four months answer why the ruling of the Supreme Court that requires Mendoza to guarantee a minimum flow.
This Monday, the governor of Pampas, Sergio Ziliottomade the announcement with his vice, Alicia Mayoral; the rector of UNLPam, Oscar Alpa; representatives of the Chadileuvú Foundation and the Assembly for the Pampean Rivers; the state prosecutor, Romina Schmidt; the Secretary of Water Resources, Jose Gobbi; the Secretary of Environment and Climate Change, Vanina Basso; and the lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguezamong other authorities.
La Pampa celebrated the IACHR measure
From the province they denounced that the management of the Atuel upstream, by Mendoza, “generated a process of desertification in La Pampa that has been going on for half a century, affecting agricultural activity and the quality of life in general.”
“Consequently, La Pampa has been following a long path of judicial claims, which reached the Supreme Court of the nation. Last June, the highest court established the obligation for Mendoza to guarantee a minimum flow, until the issue of But the ruling has been non-compliance for almost six months,” they recalled.
Ziliotto acknowledged that “this is a new step we are taking as the province of La Pampa.” “Today we can say that the Commission accepted the presentation that was made from La Pampa and gave it to the National State so that, in a peremptory time, it can provide answers as to why a ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice is not being complied with,” broad.
“In June we made a presentation in the Supreme Court saying that there is water. These days, Mendoza announces a new reservoir to stop the Atuel. It is justifying that not only is there water, but there is plenty of water in Mendoza,” he detailed.
The president assured that “as Pampeans, we will continue to insist, using all the tools that the institutions give us, so that Atuel, definitively and permanently, runs through La Pampa. We will always defend this cause, which crosses us everyone, which is internalized and has to do with the sense of belonging that we Pampas people have over our water resources. And we are not going to abandon that fight.
“A big step”
For his part, the constitutional lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguezwhich sponsors the plaintiff province, gave details about the resolution of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: “The IACHR decided to enter the admissibility analysis stage and notified it to the Argentine State, within a period of three months, which, if the State requires it, can be extended to four months. “Once the Argentine State responds, the Inter-American Commission will analyze and move on to a substantive stage.”
He added that “or you can also go directly to the merits stage and analyze the substance of the issue, which is whether or not the Argentine State violated the human right to comprehensive protection of the environment and the human right that establishes that, “When there are sentences from a State that recognizes the violation of a human right and orders reparation, they must be complied with.”
He described the IACHR’s decision as “a great step because we managed to overcome the first stage of an exhaustive examination and, from this moment on, the Argentine State has to demonstrate that the actions of the Supreme Court of Justice and the actions of Mendoza do not violate the human right to the environment, as recognized by the Supreme Court of Justice and as, permanently, The Pampa continues to prove, in a permanent and systematic violation of the human right of the Pampas to enjoy the Atuel River.”
“This is new, very important, and we are going to continue working together, all of us who articulated this, to reach a successful conclusion and ensure that the IACHR issues a report where, clearly, a violation that is indisputable is repaired and restored.” , complete.
Source: Ambito
